Bruce Dickins
Bruce Dickins, FBA (26 October 1889 – 4 January 1978), graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, was Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds from 1931 to 1946 (where he succeeded E. V. Gordon), teaching medieval English and Old Norse.[1]
He became Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Cambridge University, from January 1946 until September 1957, afterwards Emeritus Professor; and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1946. He was succeeded as professor at Leeds by Harold Orton, and in some respects also A. R. Taylor.